Blogging can cost you a job?

Check out this list of companies that (supposedly) “fired, threatened, disciplined, fined or not hired people because of their blog.”

1.) Delta Air Lines

2.) Wells Fargo

3.) Ragen MacKenzie

4.) Starbucks

5.) Microsoft (some say yay, some say nay)

6.) Friendster

7.) the Houston Chronicle

8.) the St. Louis Post-Dispatch

9.) Nunavut Tourism (Canada)

10.) the Committee on Degrees in Social Studies, Harvard University

Click here to discover the others

Teenage angst makes a comeback…

Cheri Pupp’s teenage daughter appeared the picture of success. An honor student, four-sport athlete and member of the school band and church choir, she had every reason to be confident of a bright future.

Thus Ms. Pupp and her husband were stunned when the 14-year-old wrote them a letter pouring out her anxieties over choosing a career. “I don’t know where I want to go in life,” she lamented.

“I had no idea she was feeling so pressured by the idea that she needed to know now what she was going to do for the rest of her life. She was falling apart and we didn’t know it,” says Ms. Pupp, who quickly took steps to reassure and encourage her daughter. “She gets up with a smile on her face every day. Now I have to wonder if that’s not masking a lot of internal turmoil.”

A problem is mounting among kids: future angst. The roller-coaster ride from the high optimism of the late 1990s, when teenage millionaires peopled the headlines, to the layoffs and economic turmoil of the new decade has given many kids a bad case of vertigo.

READ: Teens’ Career Angst Is a Growing Problem

Shooting yourself in the foot

I read this on Seth Godin’s blog and thought, “Hmmm…” This also applies to people who want to move up the corporate ladder.

READ: Rules for failure

Pssst… They’re hiring in Philly…

In advance of the Pennsylvania state unemployment report, Adecco (NYSE:ADO), the staffing industry’s market leader in the U.S. and the world, today announced it is seeing increased demand for employees in the Philadelphia area, especially in the retail, healthcare, banking and insurance industries. Philadelphia is one of many locales across the country where Adecco is responding to a growing need for contingent workers from employers in a variety of industries.

Jon Roesser, operations manager for Adecco in the greater Philadelphia area, says, “The current employment outlook in the Philadelphia region is quite promising for a wide range of positions in a number of industries. The first quarter of each year generally is slower as the holiday season winds down, but that has not been the case in 2005. We are receiving significantly more orders now than we were at this time last year.”

Job seekers in the Philadelphia area will be pleased to know that entry-level positions such as general clerks, cashiers and administrative assistants as well as higher-level jobs, including loan, bill and claims processors are in high demand across the retail, banking, insurance and healthcare industries. Adecco has seen a particular spike in hiring in the healthcare sector.

READ: Adecco’s ‘Where-the-Jobs-Are’ Report Shows Increased Hiring in Philadelphia

Become… “one” with your cubicle…

If your workspace makes you shudder and your job is the pits or you’re making no money or feel like you’re in a rut, you might need to find some balance and set some goals. You could find peace in the workplace with the ancient art of feng shui.

“Feng Shui (pronounced fung-schway) is an ancient Chinese philosophy of design that can be applied to any room, building and desktop. It’s mainly about how your space makes you feel

Elementary my dear watson, elementary…

An abrupt departure can mean many things, but don’t expect your employer to tell all. Still, you can at least get some clues. There’s something disconcerting, a little Twilight-Zoneish, about stopping by a colleague’s workstation to leave a message, or check on a meeting time, or just say hi and hear, “Uh, Charlie doesn’t work here anymore.”

What the heck? I talked to him yesterday, you think, as though you just heard that Charlie had expired during the night. In fact, the shock is often akin to getting the news that someone you know has died of a heart attack or in a traffic accident. What could have happened to Charlie? He looked fine the last time I saw him.

READ: When a co-worker vanishes… (Insert spooky music here)

Linked In Kills Monsters In The Marketplace

Although I wrote this for Cybersleuthing – the best blog for Searchologists on the planet, I thought this would prove of interest to jobseekers as well. Cybersleuthing is written by Shally Steckerl, a legend in sourcing talent and a god among online researchers (smile).

Linked In Kills Monsters In The Marketplace

Genius!

That is the best (and in my opinion) only way to describe what is going on at Linked In (www.linkedin.com). I received an email today hyping Direct Employer

Yahoo launches dream job contest!

Beginning today, Yahoo! HotJobs (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leader in the online recruitment industry, is launching THE BIG GAME PLAN, a national sweepstakes that will award eight lucky participants an up close and personal opportunity to discover their dream job.

Yahoo! HotJobs is teaming with top companies nationwide to offer short-term experiences in the television, publishing, fashion, music, automotive, food & beverage, entertainment and athletics industries. Whether it

Don’t believe the hype…

An Indian woman here is reported to have duped several Nepalese with promises of cushy jobs abroad and more than 40 job-seekers are presently stranded penniless in Kabul. Several similarly tricked blue-collar workers who managed to return home last year have filed a police complaint against Ishwori Ale, who is from Sikkim, the Himalayan Times daily reported Monday. Ale had taken unspecified amounts of money from the 42 workers currently stranded in Kabul, promising them jobs as security guards there. But when the young men went to Kabul via Delhi, they could find no signs of the $1,900 per month job they had been promised. The tricked men went on staying in Kabul in the hope they would get a job to pay for the huge expenses they had run up to go there. Though their visa reportedly expired earlier this month, they were unable to leave as they had no money to clear their hotel dues and pay their fare.

READ: Indian woman running illegal job racket in Nepal:

Martin Luther King, Jr. on Labor

I look forward confidently to the day when all who work for a living will be one with no thought to their separateness as Negroes, Jews, Italians or any other distinctions. This will be the day when we bring into full realization the American dream